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Contributing to this blog:
- "Dave" is Dave Barry, who is a humor columnist and presidential contender.
- "judi" is Judi Smith, who is Dave's Research Department, as well as being interested in men.
- "Walter" is Walter, a bone from the penis of a walrus.

A menstrual angel? If there was a menstrual angel, she would bring me vast quantities of drugs and alcohol and make all men cater to my every whim during that "joyful time". She would not bring me tree ornaments.

Tampon-crafts for cat owners: A former feline companion demonstrated for me the incredible attraction of a tampon as a cat-toy. To max out the kitty's pleasure, it should be an old-style tampon with a crinkly paper wrapper.
Phase I. "Hey..something crinkly that I can carry around, drop, and pounce on!"
Phase II: "Hey...I can get the skin off it, and it rolls around" shortly followed by...
Phase III: "OMG! It has a tail!!!" (followed by frenzied attack, which results in the 'shelling' of the soft white long-tailed critter, and triumphal parade through the house.
I've often considered that there might be money to be made by packaging these in bags of catnip, but I thought it was way too weird.

My junior year of high school I was good friends with a (male) foreign exchange student. One night we were up in my room looking for some books and he found a tampon in my nightstand. He asked if he could unwrap it and look at it, and when he had done so, asked me how they worked. I made my thumb and forefinger into a circle and showed him. I pushed the applicator tubes together and the tampon plopped out on the bed. He picked it up by the string and exclaimed, "That is so cool! I wish I were a girl." Then he marched down the hall to the bathroom, tampon dangling from his hand by its string, filled the sink up with water, and floated the tampon to see how much it would expand. He pulled the dripping wad out of the sink, again remarked on how cool it was, and threw it away. A friend of mine said her boyfriend once asked her how a tampon worked, too. Are all guys that curious about it, or just those two?

southerngirl~ Yeah, well. He was a disturbing guy, as I quickly discovered. He was overly fond of designing outfits for my old Barbie dolls and spending quality time with another guy at my school. Need I say more?

Bumble and TC...I'd give the guy the benefit of the doubt (except for that 'want to be a girl' thing). Remember that a tampon fits the definition of 'gadget', and naturally, therefore, must be taken apart immediately. And, although I'm sure I don't speak for all the ladies here, I do dimly recall from my younger collegiate years that I performed a number of highly scientific experiments with condoms, including the 'how far up one can you stick your arm' experiment, and the 'look...I could use one for a particularly uncomfortable sock' experiment. And the guys in the dorm once performed the 'look how big my roommate's name gets if you stamp it on a condom and then blow it up' experiment.
It's all just a healthy curiosity about the secret paraphernalia of a foreign cultures...

TCK...There, there...I didn't say it was universal. I was just trying to cut the guy a little slack. Note to world: TCK is not now, and has never been, a tampon-tamperer.
And I don't even want to think about glow-sticks in the same thread as tampons.

Betsy~ Don't sweat it. The guy didn't deserve any slack. Not because of his issues (and they were many) but because of the way he treated me. So A.P., if you're out there, (though I doubt you're cool enough to read this blog) I have this to say to you: :-P

In remember talking to talking with two male friends of mine at college, and I don't remember how, but the conversation got around to sanitary products. They started discussing the various sizes, and one of my friends (very seriously, although I thought he was kidding at the time) made the statement, "Well, I think a tampon has to be no bigger than a napkin, anyway". I started laughing because, as I said, I thought he was kidding. But he wasn't. Really opened my eyes as to how naive some men were concerning these things.